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[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 9 points 3 years ago*

AFAIK "near" means "in a minute's time, you might be within a thousand feet of another aircraft".

Which means 99.99% of the time they didn't "need" to divert course, but they did out of an abundance of caution.

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